Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Swedish father and a Norwegian mother, Author Lundberg got his start as a police reporter in purple days of Chicago gangdom. That road led to United Press and finally to the New York Herald Tribune as a Wall Street reporter. His toughest assignment was the 1929 crash. In 1934 he quit reporting to write Imperial Hearst, which was successful enough to maintain him and his Vassar-graduate wife in a bookish Manhattan apartment. With the help of General Johnson and Secretary of Interior Ickes, who used the title for the theme of his attack on monopolies, America...
...Justice in Spam's last cabinet under King Alfonso; of diabetes; at Madrid's Norwegian Legation, where he had hidden all through the civil war. He died not knowing that his namesake son, inventor of the autogiro, had been killed in a K. L. M. air crash 13 months before (TIME...
Presiding over the (Senate one day last week while it filibustered on the anti-lynching bill, Massachusetts' 35-year-old Senator Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., seeking comfort, leaned far back in his chair. Suddenly the chair overturned, he landed with a crash on the floor...
...easily see that the pilots were in difficulty. Powerful winds rocked and buffeted the light planes as they tried to rise above the 10,000-ft. peaks around them. They attempted to turn back. Then, eyewitnesses said, the three planes seemed to be blown together; there was a violent crash as they momentarily interlocked, a burst of flame. Like two stones the Santa Maria and Pinta fell to earth, crashed side by side in the bottom of a shallow creek. On fire, the Nina struggled a few seconds, crashed a few hundred yards from its companions. All seven occupants...
...letters and because he espouses an unorthodox theory whose kernel is that investment as generally practiced is not as safe as intelligent speculation. This conception is unlikely to endear him to SEC interrogators but thus far has pleased his clients. In hectic September, 1929, just before ''the crash," Broker Loeb's market letter declared: "We see no reason to do anything but stand on the sidelines...